Our impact

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Our impact

In collaboration with the Office for National Statistics, ESCoE research is informing social policy, driving new labour market insights, supporting the economic transition to net-zero, tackling the global productivity slowdown and improving trust in government statistics.

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ESCoE works with academic and industry partners on a diverse variety of research projects. Click on the images below for stories on their impact, showing their vital importance to the measurement of the modern economy and beyond.

Developing a new Linked Employer Employee Dataset for the UK
Newspapers
Communicating uncertainty in economic statistics
Measuring the green economy

Measuring public sector productivity
Skills
Making sense of skills

ESCoE’s objectives:

To be an international focal point of reference for world-class research on economic measurement and the development of economic statistics for the modern economy.
To support ONS to deliver world-class economic statistics that meet user needs and allow ONS to exert greater influence over the direction of travel of the international standard-setting agenda.
To create a network of world-class experts in economic measurement to enable the delivery of a cutting-edge research programme to improve understanding of the economy through data and statistics.
To provide an environment for the development of a wider research community with skills and research experience in economic statistics, building the next generation of academic experts in this field.
To deliver dissemination mechanisms to bring international expertise to bear on research on economic measurement and economic statistics in the UK.
To develop collaboration between the academic research community and statistical agencies, offering the capacity for fundamental methodological and conceptual work that will feed into the development and improvement of economic statistics and data-processing methodologies.